How to let a CFrameWnd based SDI application start in full screen?

From:
Leo <jchliustuff@gmail.com>
Newsgroups:
microsoft.public.vc.mfc,comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.tools.mfc
Date:
Thu, 10 Jun 2010 11:53:19 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID:
<c49e9e27-36b9-4499-a49e-82a6d0699a00@a39g2000prb.googlegroups.com>
I have a CFrameWnd based SDI application. I want it to start in full
screen. I did the following:

BOOL CMainFrame::PreCreateWindow(CREATESTRUCT& cs)
{
  ...
  cs.style = WS_OVERLAPPED | WS_CAPTION | WS_MAXIMIZE
  cs.dwExStyle &= ~WS_EX_CLIENTEDGE;
  cs.lpszClass = AfxRegisterWndClass(0);
  return TRUE;
}

This will start full screen on my development machine. But after
deploying it, it doesn't start in full screen on other machines.

Then I overrided the following method:

void CMainFrame::OnSetFocus(CWnd* /*pOldWnd*/)
{
  // forward focus to the view window
  m_wndView.SetFocus();

  if (!m_bFullScreen)
  {
    m_bFullScreen = true;

    int cyCaption = ::GetSystemMetrics(SM_CYCAPTION);
    int cxFrame = ::GetSystemMetrics(SM_CXFRAME);
    int cyFrame = ::GetSystemMetrics(SM_CYFRAME);
    int cxScreen = ::GetSystemMetrics(SM_CXSCREEN);
    int cyScreen = ::GetSystemMetrics(SM_CYSCREEN);

    SetWindowPos(NULL, -cxFrame, -(cyFrame + cyCaption), cxScreen + 2
* cxFrame, cyScreen + 2 * cyFrame + cyCaption, SWP_NOZORDER);
  }
}

This will occupy most of the screen, but not the taskbar at the
bottom. How can I also let the application occupy really the full
screen (includeing the taskbar area)? Thanks.

Leo

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